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Adventure
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Into the Big Blue
The Croatian submarine world does not offer adrenalin injections of contact with
dangerous sea predators, but it provides unforgettably beautiful scenery: according
to divers, the most interesting places for diving are locations abundant in submarine
fauna and flora and diving around shipwrecks
Written by: Tanja Jakovèev Photographs by: Hrvoje Paštar / www.venus-diving.com
Splendid gorgonians, unique chorals, hundreds of
thousands of fish species, molluscs, inhospitable
reefs and mysterious depths, shipwrecks and antiquities
that the seawater partly conserved and
partly processed with its own “tools” of waves and salt…
Divers have all of this on the palm of their hands. The
Croatian Adriatic coast with its thousands of islands, islets
and reefs hides a submarine world enriched with beauties
that have to make an impact on everybody, and
those that at least once took a mask and dived even
on the smallest depth, felt a calling of one of the most
attractive sports. There is something entirely personal
and inapprehensible in the moment when one changes
its natural medium for a medium one previously could
only see in documentaries, in which one is completely
light but clumsy, naturally disabled and where everything
looks completely different. Under the surface, as it
is often said, divers search for the peace they long lost
“up there”. And they find it. Croatian submarine world is
the most wanted spot for diving on the Mediterranean
so, although the Adriatic cannot outshine top attractions
like Maldives or the Red Sea, there are more and
more of those that enjoy coming to dive in Croatia and
that prefer seeing a lobster hiding in a hole rather than
in a pot. Diving centres are an important part of Croatian
tourist offer, and year after year there is an increasing
number of people attending scuba diving courses. At
the same time it is very important to distinguish diving
clubs from diving centres: clubs are civilian associations
and centres are companies or trades licensed for divers’